January 19-24, 2010

Newsletter

Faculty News

Media Mentions:

In the wake of the Haiti earthquake, NBC Nightly News and WUSA-TV Channel 9 interviewed Prof. Pedro Silva (CEE) about the structural integrity of buildings during an earthquake. Both interviews aired on January 13th. GWU Students Learn Lessons From Haiti Earthquake (Video, WUSA-TV Channel 9), and Earthquakes 101 (Video, NBC Nightly News).

Prof. Joseph Barbera (EMSE) was also interviewed in response to the Haiti earthquake. The Washington Post conducted the interview, and the article (on emergency medical teams) ran on January 15th in the Post and in several other papers after being picked up by AP.

Other News:

Other News

Scholarship opportunity: Current SEAS graduate students and current SEAS undergraduate seniors who will be graduate students here next year are potentially eligible for the Hyundai Scholarship. The application deadline is February 12th. The purpose of the scholarship is to enable South Korean and American scholars to pursue advanced degrees in specific fields of business administration, management science, and engineering. Awards are made annually to both South Korean and U.S. citizens. Interested applicants must be students in SEAS or the School of Business. Please visit the Hyundai Scholarship website for more information on eligibility and the application process. The award includes full tuition (fees excluded) for one academic year.

Scholarship opportunity: The application period for Computer Security and Information Assurance full scholarships for U.S. citizens is now open. (Rising) juniors, seniors, and graduate students are eligible. This year's forms and information are up the web at http://www.seas.gwu.edu/cybercorps/. The application deadline is February 1st.

William Soller, a student at the School Without Walls High School in Washington DC, has been working with Prof. Matthew Kay (ECE) and his graduate student, Huda Asfour, to study the electrical impedance of cardiac cells. Last week he was awarded second place in the Washington DC Regional Competition for the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (http://www.jshs.org/). His research presentation was entitled "A Novel Device for Improved Impedance Measurement of Cell Monolayers." William will next present his project at the JSHS National Competition in Bethesda. High school science competitions in the DC area are extremely competitive and this is a major accomplishment for him.

CS Colloquium: “Technical Publications in the Age of Social Networking: The periodicals of the Computer Society”
Speaker: Prof. David Grier, GW Elliot School of International Affairs
Monday, March 8th at 4:00 pm
736 Phillips Hall

SEAS Seminar Series in Entrepreneurship:

Please join SEAS for a four-part Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship. These events are free and open to the SEAS and GW community.

Sponsored by the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Engineer Alumni Association.

SEAS Seminar Series in Engineering Challenges of the 21st Century:

SEAS continues the seminar series it initiated last semester with more discussions on engineering challenges facing us. More information will soon be available. In the meantime, please mark your calendars for the following dates:

Predictive, Personalized, and Pre-emptive: Biomedical Engineering and the Transformation in Medicine and Health Care
Prof. Murray Loew
January 26th

Life in "the Cloud" – Supercomputing
Prof. Howie Huang
February 23rd

Pervasive Computing and Its Integration Into Our Day-to-Day Life
Prof. Susan Cheng
March 9th

Information Security and Privacy: Why, What and How
Prof. Bhagi Narahari
March 23rd

Systems Architecting: Taking a System from Concept to Reality
Prof. Nicholas Kyriakopoulos
April 6th

The Role of Technology in Global Security
April 20th

Sex, Lies and Videoclips: The Perils of Life Online
Prof. Dianne Martin
May 4th